›a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
›a rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building or engineering works, machinery, furniture, etc.
›a body, especially a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique: He has a large frame.
›a structure for admitting or enclosing something: a window frame.
›Usually frames. the framework for a pair of eyeglasses.
›form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order.
›a particular state, as of the mind: an unhappy frame of mind.
›Movies. one of the successive pictures on a strip of film.
›Television. a single traversal by the electron beam of all the scanning lines on a television screen. In the U.S. this is a total of 525 lines traversed in 1/30 second.Compare field.
›Computers. the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time.
›Bowling. one of the ten divisions of a game.one of the squares on the scorecard, in which the score for a given frame is recorded.
›enclosing lines, usually forming a square or rectangle, to set off printed matter in a newspaper, magazine, or the like; a box.
›the structural unit that supports the chassis of an automobile.
›Nautical. any of a number of transverse, riblike members for supporting and stiffening the shell of each side of a hull.any of a number of longitudinal members running between web frames to support and stiffen the shell plating of a metal hull.
›a machine or part of a machine supported by a framework, especially as used in textile production: drawing frame; spinning frame.
›Printing. the workbench of a compositor, consisting of a cabinet, cupboards, bins, and drawers, and having flat and sloping work surfaces on top.
›Bookbinding. an ornamental border, similar to a picture frame, stamped on the front cover of some books.
›in frame, Shipbuilding. with all frames erected and ready for planking or plating.
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framed, fram·ing.
›to form or make, as by fitting and uniting parts together; construct.
›to contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem: to frame a new constitution.
›to conceive or imagine, as an idea.
›Informal. to incriminate through the use of false evidence, information, etc.
›to provide with or put into a frame, as a picture.
›to give utterance to: Astonished, I attempted to frame adequate words of protest.
›to form or seem to form with the lips, as if enunciating carefully.
›to fashion or shape: to frame a bust from marble.
›to shape or adapt to a particular purpose: to frame a reading list for ninth graders.
›Informal. to contrive or prearrange fraudulently or falsely, as in a scheme or contest.
›to adjust in a motion-picture projector so as to secure exact correspondence of the outlines of the frame and aperture.
›to line up visually in a viewfinder or sight.
›Archaic. to direct, as one's steps.
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framed, fram·ing.
›Archaic. to betake oneself; resort.
›Archaic. to prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something.